@gasull
Interesting, thanks. I see what you mean. I've been considering for years a similar argument against the need/usefulness to/of keeping up with “the news”. I'm still undecided about that one.
What I don't like is that my “area of influence” is so tiny that your advice in practice would mean: “don't bother learning, reflecting and discussing with others about anything — except with colleagues about work, with your neighbour about where best to park the trash bin, and with your partner about what furniture to buy”…
#BryanCaplan on minimum rules to engage in intellectual #arguments:
“Remain calm, take nothing personally, use probabilities, face hypotheticals head-on, and spurn Social Desirability Bias like the plague.”
https://www.econlib.org/silence-is-stupid-argument-is-foolish/
This is all very important to me, and a constant source of frustration when debating with other people, so I just added it to #Vita:
https://tripu.github.io/Vita/doc/life#4-debates-and-discussing-with-people
“[Robin] DiAngelo isn’t the first person to make a buck pushing tricked-up pseudo-intellectual horseshit as corporate wisdom, but she might be the first to do it selling Hitlerian race theory. […] It takes a special kind of ignorant for an author to choose an example that illustrates the mathematical opposite of one’s intended point, but this isn’t uncommon in #WhiteFragility, which may be the dumbest book ever written. It makes The Art of the Deal read like Anna Karenina.”
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/on-white-fragility
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The plural of "index" is "indices".
The plural of "vertex" is "vertices".
The plural of "mutex" is "deadlock".
-- @agmlego
Important PSA for #conspiracy theorists out there:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/07/30/you-must-not-do-your-own-research-when-it-comes-to-science/#389f417c535e
Because #science, bitch.
“At a push, we can hear acknowledgement of the ‘#poor #white #male’ problem. But that’s as far as it ever goes. The underperformance of white #boys and men is not considered to be a problem worth solving. When figures come out showing the stunning attainment gaps between boys and girls, the interest lasts for about a day.”
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-lost-boys-the-white-working-class-is-being-left-behind
“While #white #workingclass #males are the largest disadvantaged minority, their cause is the least fashionable. In the intersectional pyramid of #victimhood, white males are at the bottom, tarnished by ideas of #toxicmasculinity and #whiteprivilege despite the fact that in Britain class has always been the most significant indicator of true #privilege. […] Dulwich and Winchester colleges turned down a bequest of more than £1 million because the donor, Sir Bryan Thwaites, wanted the money ring-fenced for scholarships for white working-class boys. Peter Lampl, founder of the Sutton Trust, a charity whose stated mission is to improve social mobility, described Thwaites’s offer as ‘obnoxious’.”
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-lost-boys-the-white-working-class-is-being-left-behind
Don't miss this if you are a human, especially if you like #drawing and #illustration. Especially if you are a #parent.
Especially if you are a #dad.
https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/599c4eae1e00003c00c5ec73.jpeg
(The last strip in Dan Dougherty's “Beardo” #comic series — https://www.beardocomics.com/beardo .)
I think it's important to realise that for us, #softwareengineers/#programmers, the ultimate “threat” of developments like #OpenAI's #GPT3 is *not* a system that would translate {natural language → programming language → machine code}. (That would be like training a robot to understand the description of a scene, have it paint the scene with oil on canvas using brushes, and finally scan the painting to obtain a digital image.) A truly intelligent (digital) system will dispose of #programminglanguages altogether, or use much less human-friendly alternatives as intermediate structures to manipulate, such as AST's or bytecode. Just bear that in mind when you prep to recycle your career…
Also about #OpenAI's #GPT3:
poor, poor #WolframAlpha…!!
“Could some #universities reverse the current trend and remain places where the independent-minded want to congregate? […] I'm hopeful long term. The independent-minded are good at protecting themselves. If existing #institutions are compromised, they'll create new ones. That may require some imagination. But imagination is, after all, their specialty.”
http://www.paulgraham.com/conformism.html
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"How could I ever trust my Mastodon admin with my data? A large company like Twitter is more secure because they have proper procedures in place" A large company like Twitter:
@sirikon @LianteComandoMurcia
Totalmente de acuerdo con eso de «votar mejor y exigir responsabilidades». Mientras tanto, los que tienen derecho a decidir qué se hace (o no se hace) con esa propiedad son los ciudadanos, representados en su ayuntamiento.
El caso sonado más reciente que recuerdo en Madrid, el de #LaIngobernable, no tenía que ver, en absoluto, con gente necesitada «resguardándose del frío».
https://mastodon.technology/@tripu/103130036515898373
https://mastodon.technology/@tripu/103130061315067597
También estoy de acuerdo con que «cada caso hay que estudiarlo», pero eso no quita que la postura *por defecto* ante una okupación (como ante cualquier delito o falta o usurpación de la propiedad de otros) sea de condena. Luego el juez verá.
@sirikon @LianteComandoMurcia
La mayoría de los españoles «tienen más recursos y mejor vida que alguien que esté en la calle» (es casi una tautología, porque la inmensa mayoría de los españoles no viven en la calle). Yo, por ejemplo. Probablemente tú también.
¿Justifica eso que «alguien que está en la calle» se lleve mis bolsas de la compra (incluida la leche y los pañales de mi bebé) si me despisto al salir del supermercado? ¿Que use mi coche si me dejo las llaves puestas mientras me preparo para ir al trabajo? ¿Que se meta en mi casa durante las dos semanas que me voy de vacaciones?
No. Todo eso es *a priori* ilegal (e inmoral) por buenas razones.
Los casos menos frecuentes de verdadero «hurto famélico» ya están protegidos por el artículo 20, número 5, del Código Penal. Y aun así, citando jurisprudencia, el estado de necesidad «no puede deducirse, a modo de presunción, de las aparentes dificultades económicas por las que [atraviese el acusado], pues necesariamente ha de exigirse, además, que se hayan agotado todas las posibilidades que pudieran existir —sociales, asistenciales o de cualquier otra clase— para la solución del problema de la vivienda».
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I put together an illustrated guide on rebasing with #Git (ie: moving commits from a branch to another). It's a common question I get from beginners, and I hope this is useful to others: https://blog.pablobm.com/2020/07/23/how-to-move-commits-to-correct-branch.html
